🐸🌱Position OPEN in the Torii Lab @texasscience.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social ! We are looking for an enthusiastic, plant propagation, tissue culture, transformation and genome editing expert for functional genomics of Amphibious model system🐸🌱 utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...

2026 GRC Salt and Water Stress in Plants. Amazing conference with awesome scientists like Prof. Ora Hazak @hazaklab.bsky.social at enchanted and beautiful Les Diabrelets 🏔️🇨🇭🫕. Thank you, organizers, for the invitation and 5-days of exciting science!

Glacer3000 at Les Diabrelets. A suspended bridge connecting two summits 🏔️🇨🇭🏔️ 標高約3000メートルの山頂2つを繋ぐ吊り橋。　まるで天空侵犯。　絶景だけど怖かった。。。

Je suis arrivée à destination 🇨🇭🏔️. 2番目の目的地に到着. 天気良すぎ。。☀️

Thanks for the visit - it was a great pleasure!

Thank you, Profs. Michael Hothorn, Roman Ulm, and Marie Barberon for the fantastic time and exciting scientific discussion after my seminar - à L'Université de Genève🇨🇭

We are all Roger. This is a despicable attack on the very essence of what academic science is about. Reason. Humanity. International collaboration.

［顔］温暖化と異常気象との関係解明…優れた女性研究者に贈られる「猿橋賞」受賞　今田由紀子さん　４７ https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/20260425-GYT1T00240/

Breakthrough discovery in the field of peptide-receptor kinase signaling in stomatal development🌱. Six partially-redundant subtilases producing mature EPF1/EPF2 pepetide to enforce stomatal patterning @natplants.nature.com 🥰 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌸Theoretical Physicist and Plant Developmental Biologist —At the National Cathedral 🌸

Truly grateful to be back, this time to celebrate our friends & colleagues’ scientific accomplishments #NAS163 🥰🌸🧬! 米国科学アカデミーに戻ってきました。今回は友人科学者たちのお祝い🎉

Ubiquitination-triggered receptor endocytosis enforces stomatal development Chen, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @stomata-tweets.bsky.social

Back in Pacific NW🗻

Thank you, Prof. Luca Comai at UC Davis Genome Center, for a fantastic seminar @texasscience.bsky.social 🧬🌱. Luca recruited me to @uwbiology.bsky.social over 2 decades ago. So nice to catch up w/ my friend & colleague😍. ワシントン大学のもと同僚、UCデービス・ゲノムセンターのComai卓越教授がUTオースティンでセミナー。最新の研究展開に感動

Published @newphyt.bsky.social. We identified peptide ligand-induced K63-linked Ub sites of ERECTA, required for endocytosis & signal attenuation for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, all authors🌱👍 @texasscience.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Cell Cycle in Plant Development and Reprogramming”, @dev-journal.bsky.social W/ a fantastic ECR, Prof. Laura Lee @uncbiology.bsky.social! Artwork by Dr. Ramin Rahni. Thanks for the wonderful opportunity @texasscience.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social 🌱 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Open Science! Preprint public review and authors' response w/additional data ~ exciting topic of plant BR signaling. 植物ステロイドホルモンシグナル伝達経路を大きく訂正するプレプリントに大御所が批判。著者らが更に実験し反論。これぞオープンサイエンス🌱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very interesting paper-- evolutionary redeployment of MUTE to generate unique CAM plant (Kalanchoë) stomatal complex. From Raissig Lab, Sci Adv 🌵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

私がワシントンDC近郊に出張中、連れは、テキサスの大富豪の牧場でのシンポジウムで発表したそうだが、、、参加していた大学院生がガラガラ蛇に噛まれて、ヒューストンの救急医療機関に搬送されたそうだ。。テキサス恐るべし。。🐍😱

Just 4 days left to submit your abstract for the Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 🌱 Join us in Cambridge (22–24 Sept) to share your work on plant morphogenesis — talks & posters all welcome. 🗓 Deadline: 30 March 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sainsbury-la... Don’t miss out! #SLS26 #PlantScience #plantsci

🌸🌸🌸Back to the Scientists’ Utopia.... for just three days. 🌸🌸🌸

Our review on ERECTA-family receptors @theplantjournal.bsky.social- their versatile roles in development, mechanisms of receptor activation, signal transduction, subcellular trafficking, non-canonical pathways, and potential agricultural applications. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Beautiful! @keikoutorii.bsky.social and co! Comparative proteomic profiling of receptor kinase signaling reveals key trafficking components enforcing plant stomatal development | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Published! From a proteomic atlas of the ERECTA signaling network, we show that receptor kinase endocytosis is essential for proper stomatal patterning. Congrats, Pengfei, @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social, @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @texasscience.bsky.social & co-authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📚𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 How do plants read positional cues? 🌿 ERECTA-family receptors interpret spatiotemporal peptide cues, integrating receptor activation, signaling dynamics, trafficking, and non-canonical pathways. ✍️ Bai and @keikoutorii.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70793

📽️Our promotional video by JoVE Journal 📽️ "Efficient Regeneration-based Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of an Asexual Amphibious Brassicaceae Species, Rorippa aquatica". The first author, Our awesome tech, Page explains the scientific rationale🥰🌱🧬 app.jove.com/v/69672/

日本植物生理学会2026年会に参加されている皆様、9Fの@aspbofficial.bsky.social (アメリカ植物生物学会)ブースに遊びに来てください。缶バッジやPlant Cell, Plant Physなどロゴのシール、ペンなどグッズも沢山。ASPB CEOのCrispin、それに私も時折顔を出します🌱🌸🤩 bsky.app/profile/stom...

STEM Girl Day at UT Austin @texasscience.bsky.social this weekend. 25 years of promoting future #WomenInSTEM 👩‍🏫👩‍💻👩‍🔬👩‍🎓🤘 今週末は弊大学•テキサス大学オースティン校の「理数工系の女子の日」。幼稚園〜中学生が対象。四半世紀続け粘り強く、科学技術分野への女性の参入を後押し。 girlday.utexas.edu

🪴Postdoc position - UT Austin, TX, USA - Developmental Mechanisms of Adaptation to Underwater Environment/Genome Editing🪴 Do you love amphibious/aquatic plants? Then consider applying to the position! See the attached ads. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Sutarday morning in Austin TX neighborhood 🤠!

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany. Registration opening soon!

Very nice genetic dissection of the roles of BSK kinases in brassinosteroid signaling by Wenqiang Tang's lab. bsk-u (ko for BSK1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12) really looks like a bri1 null mutant and can be rescued by over-expressing BSK3. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Happy Luna New Year 2026!🥰🐴🧧 ~Cerebrating all the great news in the Torii lab.

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Feb 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science and at RIKEN BDR, we celebrate the achievements of #womeninscience by holding an IDWGIS Symposium. We also recently launched Mirai Alliance, a mentorship network for women researchers in life sciences. www.bdr.riken.jp/en/news/bdr-...

Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾

Our latest at JoVEJournal. Scalable, inexpensive transformation pipeline using RUBY🌱❤️. tuned for the video📽️. Congrats, Page and Calvin 🥰! "Efficient Regeneration-based Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of an Asexual Amphibious Brassicaceae Species, Rorippa aquatica" app.jove.com/t/69672/effi...

This is a very special paper for me. I had the idea of combining transcription factor binding with chromatin in 2016/8. It took some time, but thanks to Fred and Vikas, we can finally share the story in @plos.org Genetics looking at chromatin states in Arabidopsis and Marchantia. #PlantScience

Loving this beautiful cover image in this week's @science.org illustrating the paper which came out online late last year www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Plantscience

Seattle is getting very serious about the New Year Countdown 2026 #Cloudcity😭 新年カウントダウンの花火＆ドローンショウまであと二時間半。霧の街シアトルが本気を出してきた.. left: this morning; right: 2.5 hours to the countdown 左: 大晦日の昼; 右: 新年まであと二時間半

Congrats, Ayami. Review article (in JPN) describing the discovery of a small molecule that reduces the number of stomata. W/ our long-term collaborator chemist Prof. Kei Murakami [気孔の数を調節する分子の発見]🌱⚗️ www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jscr...

Congrats, Momoko @prunus-persica123.bsky.social and all! Excited to see how our former postdoc's work unfolded the mutual inhibitory mechanism bet/w EPFL2 peptide hormone & auxin underpins the intervals of auxin maxima 🌿🔬🥳 Just published @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well done, Akie! Identification of a peptide hormone-receptor module bypassing the ABA signaling to close stomata upon drought. A big breakthrough🍃😊 -Local peptide signalling induces stomatal closure under drought stress @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome editing of goldenberry ERECTA for crop ideotype. Congrats, Zach Lippman, Joyce Van Eck & the team! "Engineering compact Physalis peruviana to promote its potential as a global crop". ERECTA rock😉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📣 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 ASPB Awards. It is important that ASPB honor the most notable achievements and contributions of plant scientists worldwide.🌱 👉 The deadline is Friday, February 13! buff.ly/ziJ3tAt. #plantscience

CSHL - Plant Genomes, Systems Biology & Engineering 2025 Meeting. At the poster session. Just wonderful to meet w/ talented Early Career Scientists 🥰🧬🌱. I learned so much from this broader plant bio meeting. Thanks, Cyril, Becky, and Beth for the invitation! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Last week, I had the chance to participate in the XVII Chilean Society for Plant Biology meeting 🤩. Inspiring talks from colleagues in Chile and invited speakers @keikoutorii.bsky.social, Malcolm Bennett, @gabkrouk.bsky.social , José Feijó and many others. Looking forward to the next edition!

Calling all postdocs! Applications are open for Dept. of Molecular Biosciences 3rd Trailblazers Postdoctoral Symposium @utaustin.bsky.social. Come to Austin, meet your peers, showcase your work. Application is easy and all expenses are paid! Spread the word! tinyurl.com/yw7ffjn9

Somos las biólogas vegetales! Santiago, Chile 🌱🇨🇱🥰　#WomenInScience